Trump Attacks Clinton for Iran Payments

Donald Trump giving his nomination acceptance speech at the RNC on July 21. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Guardian – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has jumped on reports that the US paid $400m in cash to Iran after the country’s historic nuclear deal, saying that the episode was a “scandal” for Hillary Clinton, who started the talks as secretary of state.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that US officials secretly sent “wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies” to Iran, carried into the country by an unmarked cargo plane, suggesting that it may have been linked to the release of a group of Americans held in Iran. The US state department has denied this.